tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post4956370252203348045..comments2024-03-29T13:59:42.629+00:00Comments on The IPKat: Jeremy Phillips' words of warning- and some further thoughtsVerónica Rodríguez Arguijohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05763207846940036921noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-59161422675656467302015-12-02T11:47:48.501+00:002015-12-02T11:47:48.501+00:00Hugo, I just want to say that when in a blog threa...Hugo, I just want to say that when in a blog thread I reply to a comment, I'm aiming not just at the one commenter but, rather, everybody that follows the blog. There are some readers here who passionately advocate patents, especially for business methods, unconstrained by any "technology" test of patentability. There are others who suspect that patents impede rather than promote progress, even in pharmaceuticals. I'm in the middle somewhere, but I'm uncomfortable with "absolut Stoffschutz". I think pharma patents should be purpose-limited. See the next IPKat posting on the Canadian Report.<br /><br />Sorry if I come across as pompous. I will keep that in mind.MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-82028582528168606142015-12-01T13:04:08.637+00:002015-12-01T13:04:08.637+00:00Hugo'sBoot
Oh dear MaxDrei, you really are re...Hugo'sBoot<br /><br />Oh dear MaxDrei, you really are reading too much into the name. It came about simply because I was casting about for a name when making a post and had just watched the French national side play on TV. I was thinking of Hugo Lloris' kicking at the time, hence Hugo'sBoot. The name is as insignificant as that. <br /><br />I think I have seen enough of your posting and the likes of the Examiner I referred to in my earlier post to conclude that posting on here is something I should skip as I am likely to find more sense of a football messageboard. I will revert to being a reader only.<br /><br />I will just say this before leaving you to your pompous musings. I do not tend to represent the sort of clients you appear to be referring to. The majority of my clients are small businesses of private individuals and I rather suspect I make less money than the EPO Examiners who post on here (my choice so I have no complaints about that). I would also point out that as someone who has more than once been made redundant and as a former union member dating back to my days working on the shopfloor, I have experienced some of the joys of 'management' and am a long way from being unsympathetic to the position of the EPO Examining corp. Still how would you know that before rushing to judgement.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-85465407817928150592015-12-01T09:59:44.252+00:002015-12-01T09:59:44.252+00:00Living in Germany, where refuges for refugees are ...Living in Germany, where refuges for refugees are subject to arson attacks, I regret the mindset displayed by commentators who dub themselves Somebody or Other's "Boot" and who, looking outwards from themselves, are quick to detect "hostility" in the minds of public servants.<br /><br />In the world of IPR there are zealous and clever lawyers who are assiduous in pushing the envelope of what can be patented, into areas not fit for patenting. Good so. Society thrives on creativity. But for stability in our society, every force should be opposed by an equal and opposite counter-force.<br /><br />So there needs to be a judiciary (as in England) which is sensitive to such "creep" and has enough intelligence, public spiritedness and chutzpah to resist it. We want the early demise of bad patents, but quick and effective enforcement of good patents. We want an EPC Art 69 world, of a fair scope of protection but without any loss of legal certainty. Easy to say, but very hard to do, for one thing because of media receptiveness to the howls of protest from those zealous lawyers, their hob-nailed, steel-capped, big swinging boots, and their "only business" clients, whether Investors looking to make a pile of money out of one of those "Do it with a computer" business method claims, or Big Corp looking for a killer IPR app.<br /><br />And amongst all of that noise, the basic premise of the patents system, that good patents do indeed Promote the Progress in the Useful Arts, to the great benefit of mankind, tends to get more and more overlooked.<br /><br />MaxDreinoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-61360720712141641042015-12-01T06:42:12.900+00:002015-12-01T06:42:12.900+00:00Hugo'sBoot
It's a hostility that appears ...Hugo'sBoot<br /><br />It's a hostility that appears to infect at least some at the EPO. When in response to a comment about it being the EPO's job to protect the public, it was pointed out that according to Article 4 EPC it is the EPO's job to grant European patents, one of the fraternity described that as a naïve reading of the relevant Article and spouted a load of patronising stuff about prior art etc as if those of us on here wouldn't be aware of the all those barriers to grant provided for in the EPC.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5574479.post-24353564396924851142015-11-30T19:51:39.198+00:002015-11-30T19:51:39.198+00:00Great parting shot.
Some of us have long vocalize...Great parting shot.<br /><br />Some of us have long vocalized the very same concerns on prominent US patent blogs.THE US anonnoreply@blogger.com